Bill O’Reilly’s supposed Peabody award
thecarpetbaggerreport.com

“…Starting almost five years ago, O’Reilly was on FNC bragging about his award-winning, syndicated tabloid program.

“I anchored a program called Inside Edition, which has won a Peabody Award for investigative reporting,” O’Reilly said on August 30, 1999.

The Peabody happens to be the most celebrated award in journalism. There is no higher honor for a reporter in print or broadcast news. Nevertheless, O’Reilly claimed that his show, Inside Edition, was a recipient of the award.

In fact, he did so more than once. A year after this initial claim, O’Reilly was at it again, expanding on the original boast.

“Well, all I’ve got to say to that is Inside Edition has won, I believe, two Peabody awards, the highest journalism award in the country,” O’Reilly said on his Fox News program on May 8, 2000…